Last fall, my wonderful intern Sarah Galvin provided some valuable information on Seattle's club kids. She's no longer my intern, but she remains an A-plus noticer/social investigator. Here's her hit-and-run study of JT O'Neill's Multimedia Party Cart, with photos by Kevin Kauer.

• Kevin Kauer

You may have seen JT O'Neill (DJ Officer O) wheeling his shopping cart-mounted sound system/video DJ apparatus around Capitol Hill at night. The first sighting of the cart is like meeting people on the street who are dressed up for some outrageous, mysterious costume party, and then discovering that all of their costumes can put your shoes on and make you breakfast like that machine in Peewee's Playhouse.

The cart, designed by O'Neill, is equipped with a generator, beat box, turntable, 1000-watt loudspeaker, and a laptop with software called VDMX, which is used to mix video imagery. The shopping cart can project video mixes onto any available surface, with the exception of running water, which O'Neill discovered in an attempt to project a mix of explosions onto the fountain at Cal Anderson park. The cart has also made appearances at the War Room (RIP) and the sod-covered, art-laden community planning event, Park(ing) day, which was held in the 500 block wasteland.

The shopping cart is one facet of O'Neill's ongoing performance art/events planning project, 12 Hour Notice. The next appearance of the cart will be this Saturday January 16, with O'Neill on the turntable and Tony Burns manning projections, at various locales around the Hill. (O'Neill also DJs sans cart frequently at Chapel and the Eagle.)—Sarah Galvin

• Kevin Kauer